The Watchtower Society has Marfan's Syndrome. How I know? It seems to be getting "taller", but all on fake volume. Like a person with the syndrome, they are getting bigger but weaker and more spindly all the time.
Symptoms: The Kingdumb Hells are packed for special events, but when it comes to regular boasting sessions, many of them are mostly empty. They are reporting increases in publishers, getting dangerously close to 7 million. However, that is counting many publishers that wouldn't have been counted back in the day when I went in. Fake time is common. Even when people put in real time, much of it is spent driving like turtles and walking like snails. Coffee breaks in excess of 30 minutes are normal. People spend time running errands during field circus time. They also waste lots of time egressing the Kingdumb Hell, often after coming in late.
You can also see it in the littera-trash iteslf. The articles are basically the same refried cat sxxx. They haven't put out a substantially new book since when I was in. They still have the same song book that they had in 1984, despite that many of the songs have outdated terminology. They are reducing the publications: The Asleep! is now only once a month, and the Puketower is two different editions. Paperback books replace the hardbound ones they used to have. They have tiny calendars. Crapt campaigns are replacing regular magazine and book placements (though the pedophile scandal on NBC forced them to cancel one campaign). They are making it easier to place littera-trash without thinking, so they can inflate the numbers.
In addition, children are getting forced to get baptized at ever earlier ages. They are starting to push people into it before 12; those getting baptized at age 6 are held as examples for everyone to follow. And they are pushing into territories where Internet access is still limited. This is inflating the numbers substantially.
And, like the Marfan patient, the end will be swift. The "aorta" of the witless congregation is already starting to dilate critically. It is only a matter of time before the Internet catches up, the fake time slips will be exposed, and parents are going to pull their 5 year old children out before forcing them to get baptized at age 6 (and they are going to run out of children at the rate they are going). All the while, the legal bills from defending pedophiles are going to swamp their resources, preventing them from reaching Nigeria and other poor countries. Other reports are going to embarrass them to death. And, they are going to run out of tricks to inflate their numbers. People that are putting in dummy service now will ultimately put in zero service, or disassociation letters.
Once all this happens, the end will be swift. The money will run out (even quicker without college education and with part time employment). Then they will have to go to court, without the resources to defend the pedophiles. Service will be totally unproductive. They will find themselves printing up more S-77 forms than anything else. They might be able to stall for a while, but it's only a matter of time before their laziness and dishonesty catch up to them and they come crumbling down.
In the meantime, the apostate community will have solid growth. Those people are not going back into the Tower. Eventually there will be more active apostates than active witlesses, and the apostates will have more and better resources. Ultimately, it will get so these boards will be more to help discuss the experiences that the cult has caused them, as opposed to warning others against joining or helping others get out.
